Tobacco-drier



(No Model.)

M. GALBRAITH.

TOBACCO DRIER.

No. 333,511. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

N. PUERS. Phalo-Lilhognphur, Washington, D. C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOBACCO-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,511, dated January 5, 1886. Application filed January 30, 1885. Serial No. 154.474. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. GALBRAITH, of Oxford, in the county of Scott and State of Kentucky, have invented an Improved Tobacco-House, ofwhich the following is aspecification.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then clearly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l of the drawings is an end elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation.

In the drawings, A represents the body of house, in the usual shape and of any desired dimensions, according to the number of tiers. The latter are usually given about four feet each way and run crosswise from the outside toward the center or middle of house. This main body A has the usual roof, with about the pitch shown in Fig. l of the drawings.

B B represent lean-tos formed in sections 1), extending from the eaves-strip O, to which they are hinged, to the body-sills D, so as when down to fit snugly over said sills. These lean-tos are made in panels b, preferably about four feet in width, and forming with each other close joints, which are however closed by the strips E. This breaking of the joints renders each lean-to a weatherproof house side when they hang in a perpendicular position.

F are posts or uprights upon which the lean-tos rest, or to which they may be secured by a latch-fastening, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. At the lower end they are stepped in a sill, and, if desired, hinged or latched thereto. They may, however, be let into the ground and held without thesill D, but it would be an imperfect and undesirable way of securing them. I prefer to make the eaves of house about sixteen feet from the ground, and the posts F about twelve feet high, giving the lean-t0s about the same pitch as the house-roof. These points of construction may, however, be greatly varied without departing from the principle and substance of my in vention.

The body of house and the auxiliary side receptacles may be made relatively in capacity, so that each side receptacle will hold as much tobacco as the house, because two sticks of the cured tobacco in the side receptacles will take up no more than the space of one partially cured or uncured in the house. However, it is an object that the house side receptacle shall be a multiple of the side receptacles containing the same quantity, or twice or thrice as much, so as to make them correspond.

G represents rails or tobacco-sticks, and H supporting-studs on the posts F. These rails, studs, and posts constitute a movable frame, which may, with theouter sills, be readily placed in the bottom of house and out of the weather as soon as the tobacco has cured sufficiently to be placed up in the barn in the usual way. When this tobacco has been cured enough for stripping, the panels I) may be opened to as great an extent as desired to admit air to dampen the tobacco, so that it may be handled without fracture; but when the air is greatly charged with moisture they should be kept closed.

A tobacco-house constructed as described will cost very much less than any now known to the public which are of the same capacity.

It is also easier of access, and a much greater uncured tobacco can be quantity of the heavy handled and hung by a given force, thus saving labor and cost in curing. Again, the aeration of the tobacco may be so exactly regulated that the curing can be effected in less time and in a better manner than is usual. I

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The sides of a tobacco-house formed of tophinged panels fitting closely together and provided with strips E, breaking joint therewith, whereby said panels may be used as an entirety or weather-boarding to the 'side of house, and as a roof for side receptacles, as described.

GEORGE MARSHALL GALBRAITH.

Witnesses:

E. M. HUMBIOT, J N0. SHELBEY. 

